ON TOUR AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1718, 8 April 1913, Page 9

ON TOUR AT HOME.

-0 LONDON PERSONALS. London, February 27. Miss Eilucn Ward, of Sir Joseph Ward, left wwtlc for Ireland, and will bo away for about n fortnight*. The Hon. A. J,. Herd in ii 11 was elected a. Fellow of the Hoy a! Colonial Institute, al n recent council mooliiiy. The High Commissioner lectured on New Zealand on Thursday night, at the Uxbridge Road Tabernacle, in aid of the church funds. Mr. and Mrs. Moncriefi:' M .M'Callum, of Auckland, after visiting Switzerland, aro now on the Riviera. After a week in Paris, they return to London, and sail by the Soydlitz for Auckland, on Starch 17. Mr. Joseph Foil i.-; giving a lecture at the London Polytechnic, on "A Trip to New Zealand," under tho auspices of tho New Zealand Shipping Company, to-mor-row, when the chair will be taken by Kir Joseph Ward. Tho Hon. T, Mackenzie is to occupy (he chair at the nnnual concert of the Glasgow Gaelic Musical Association in Glasgow, on March G, when a special feature of the programme will be a kinematogvaphic display of the Highland settlements in New Zealand. Mr. C. A. Poole, of PoiiFonby, an exmember of tho New Zealand Parliament, who is now oil a visit to England, gave a lecture at tho Young Men's Christian Association last week. Sir Joseph Ward, when asked, by one of the London journals last week for his opinion on Lord Curzon's proposal to erect a Scott memorial hall, opined that some much wider scheme than this merely local one, would be more appropriate, and proposed the creation of Scott memorial scholarships, to bo competed for annually. Captain Charles Kempson, master of. the steamer Athenic, intends retiring from the sea. It is understood that 011 his return to England he will take a shore appointment, us marine ■ superintendent of the White Star line at Plymouth. 1 Captain Kempson lias been- at sea for over 10 years. Sir Joseph Ward, who was one of tlio guests of the Imperial Industries Club at the Criterion Restaurant, last Friday, submitted the toast of "The Ladies," anil, in a speech on tho theory of ruling women inferior to men, mentioned somo of tho posts held by women in 'New Zealand, with nothing but success. Dr. Harry Garnet Phippen, L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., who is taking up medical practico at Raurimu and Kaitieke, sailed with Mrs. Phippen, from Liverpool 011 Tuesday. Dr. Phippen was trained at St. MaryV Hospital, and has had experience at other London hospitals. Mr. E. Thompson Rigg, of Wellington, who, after having taken his medical course (M.8., 8.5.) in London, went back to New. Zealand for eighteen months, returned to England last May, and took,tho post of house physician at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption. At present lie is house surgeon to the Queen's Hospital for Children in Hackney. Mr. ,C. S. Farmer, of Auckland, with Mrs. Parmer, has been taking a few months' holiday, after four and a halfyears' residence in Siberia, whither ho shortly returns, in order to resume duties as superintendent of the Sparsky Copper Mines, Ltd. During their stay in England Mr. and Mrs. Farmer have liiade hurried tours through Cornwall, Sussex, and Devon, and before returning hopo to see a good deal of the North of England, mainly Northumberland and Durham. • Mrs. Henry I'eldwick, of liiveroargill, accompanied by the Misses E. M. and C. Feldwick, has just arrived ill Loudon, after an absence of fourteen months spent in New Zealand and South Africa, in which last country they travelled extensively, visiting Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Johannesburg, and Cape Town, and the battlefields about Ladysmith and Colchso. They have now taken a furnished flat for three months at Colelierne Court, lfcdclift'B Gardens, South Kensington. ; ''Towards tho end of this year tjiey have'arranged to leave on a six mouths' trip to tho Straits Settlements, China, and Japan, returning to London early next spring.